Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 55
It would not be safe to admit him to the sheepfold.”
Who acts: It · What happens: not be, admit · To what, where: lion, sheepfold
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 safe | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 safe | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 safe | cop |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 admit | mark |
| 7 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 safe | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 admit | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sheepfold | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheepfold | det |
| 11 | sheepfold | sheepfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admit | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | It | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | lion | the sheepfold | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to sheepfold=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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